Stockholm day 2

These posts will grow far less frequent as I hope to meet people and have a little less time to myself in the near future. But for now I have nothing better to do than to update, or in this case, begin, my blog.
So, after waking up at midnight from my 8 hour jetlag recovery nap, I putzed around for a few hours and then fell back asleep until, get this, 2:00p.m. Bringing my grand sleep total to nearly 24 hours. Booyah. Anyway, today I decided to take the train into Stockholm, wander around the city without the burden of two fifty pound bags, get some stuff I needed, and acclamate myself with my surroundings. So I felt like a total bad ass navigating the rail system in Stockholm by myself, as none of it was in english, and I'm new to the whole train thing (but I'm not afraid of them). I got off at Stockholm central and wandered around for a while until heading back into Huddinge (a suburb) to buy groceries, and then back to Riksten (another suburb) to my room. The whole adventure took about 6ish hours. The following is a list of stuff I have learned about Sweden:
1) SWEDES DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH!!!
yes, they know english, and when forced to speak it, they usually can; yes most of the pop culture is in English, but they speak Swedish. They write in Swedish. The signs are in Swedish, the train station is in Swedish, Mcdonalds is in Swedish, the grocery store is in Swedish, and yes, the bus stop is in Swedish. Saying the country speaks English is a gross exaggeration. They know it, but they don't want to speak it. That's why they invented Swedish...seriously.
2) It's not that cold.
When you think Sweden you think far North, Baltic Sea, really cold. Truth be told, Stockholm gets the same North Atlantic Current that England gets. It's not really that cold. It rains. It's dark save like 3 hours, but its not the frigid subarctic wasteland you'd expect. Infact, all I've done since I got here is sweat. It's chilly, and certainly not swimmin' weather, but bring a decent overcoat and an umbrella and ur good.
3) It's freakin' expensive
bottled water 20sek=3.25ish
month transportation pass 650sek=120ish
train to destination for unfortunate traveler who didn't know that the word bus pass doesn't translate and bought single tickets as a result
169sek+30ish
making this mistake once more 50sek=8ish
NOTICE I HAVEN'T EATEN YET!!!
4) Swedish showers are weird
there is no end of shower-beginning of rest of bathroom. You shower on the floor. WEIRD
5) Swedes love HAIRGEL
I haven't seen this much product usage since...okay to be fair I did live with Jason, but everyones hair looks like Sid Vicious.
6) If Sweden were highschool the gothy, punky, lipringy kids would be the popular kids.

So I'm learning a lot. Oh, and I saw the scariest man on all of planet earth today. I would have taken a picture, but I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have shown up. I'm not kidding, I curled up in the train station corner and shivered and cried...well I would have, but every kid within a square mile was doing just that, and all the good corners were taken.

Last but not least, I saw the first use of "taugen" today. Apparently its not as popular a sound as I once thought. My love to everyone. Pictures are soon to come.